Yet another major news organization has exposed itself as a hive of petty partisanship and professional incompetence. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before.

This time, the culprit was NBC News, or, more specifically, the “NBC News Verification Unit.” On Tuesday, NBC ran a hit piece against two websites, ZeroHedge and the Federalist, written by Adele-Momoko Fraser, a London-based producer with the News Verification Unit. In the piece, Fraser and NBC claimed that Google had demonetized the two websites, meaning they were prevented from earning money through Google ads. According to Fraser, the decision was made after the Verification Unit itself, collaborating with a U.K.-based activist group, the Center for Countering Digital Hate, and its “Stop Funding Fake News” project, had complained to Google that articles on the sites violated the company’s policies that “explicitly prohibit derogatory content that promotes hatred, intolerance, violence or discrimination based on race from monetizing.”